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Showing posts with label Hospice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hospice. Show all posts
Monday, August 27, 2012

Frances Shani Parker and Anne Marie Gattari Television Interview: Aging Well in America (Video 30:16)

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Frances Shani Parker, an eldercare consultant, former school principal,  hospice volunteer,  and author of Becoming Dead Right: A...
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Monday, April 2, 2012

Hospice + Dementia: Are Bereaved Families Satisfied? (Research, Alzheimer’s Video Poem 2:24)

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Through the years, I have had many occasions to work with families of hospice patients who had dementia. For many relatives, experiencin...
Friday, March 16, 2012

Hospice, Long-Term Care, and Dementia Quiz

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Hospice, Long-Term Care, and Dementia Quiz What's your response to these statements? By Frances Shani Parker, Author Becoming Dead R...
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Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Burnout Compassion Fatigue: Health Care, Law Enforcement, Other Service Professions (Video 4:20)

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Compassion fatigue is a form of burnout experienced in many service professions such as health care and law enforcement. It results from em...
Friday, August 5, 2011

Hospice and Hispanics: Doctor-Patient Communication (Research, Video 2:52)

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Cultural values play an important role in how racial-ethnic populations make decisions regarding terminal illness, caregiving, end-of-life e...
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Friday, May 13, 2011

Approaching Death: Dying Symptoms, Caregiver Support (Video 5:31)

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The body knows when it’s time to slow down and die. Each body will die in its own way and in its own time when the process starts. I have be...
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Friday, April 1, 2011

Family and Friends Rate End-of-Life Patient Care in Nursing Homes (Research, Hospice Video 1:00)

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As much as people say they plan to die at home, most are dying in hospitals and nursing homes. What roles do family and friends who are pat...
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Friday, March 4, 2011

Hospice Volunteer and Dementia Patient Share Common History: Poem “Deeper Than Words”

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Guarded from angry mobs by federal marshals in 1960, first-grader Ruby Bridges integrated William Frantz Public School in New Orlean...
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Friday, December 31, 2010

Poem About Loneliness in Older Adults/ Seniors

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                                          She waited, grasping like a New Year's resolution... Festive holidays hav...
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Friday, December 10, 2010

The Long and Short of Hospice Time in Nursing Homes (Research)

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As a hospice volunteer in Detroit nursing homes, I have had hospice patients stay as short as one day and as long as three years. With littl...
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Saturday, September 25, 2010

Successful Hospice-Nursing Home Partnerships (Research)

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A hospice volunteer in Detroit nursing homes for many years, I am familiar with the benefits and problems that can occur when hospices and ...
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Saturday, August 21, 2010

Alzheimer’s Dementia Hospice Story: Coping With Grief

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“She’ll rise out of her grave…” This true story about a conversation with my hospice patient is one of many in my book  Becomi...
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Saturday, July 17, 2010

Hospice Volunteers Share Experiences (Hospice Poem, Video 3:25)

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Each hospice volunteer has a unique story to tell.  This is my story poem about my hospice volunteer experiences in Detroit nursing home...
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Saturday, July 3, 2010

Palliative Care or Supportive Care? Which Would You Prefer? (Research, Video 3:04)

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Would a rose by any other name smell as sweet? I have met quite a few people who don’t have a clue as to what palliative care is. Some are...
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Friday, January 1, 2010

Ten Steps to Becoming Dead Right

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                                                          Ten Steps to Becoming Dead Right                  ...
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Friday, November 6, 2009

Hospice Chaplain Planned Detroit Nursing Home Memorial Service

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The need to honor the deceased in an atmosphere of healing and support from others has been a common manner for mourning the dead. But s...
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